How to enforce a coding standard in STMIDE ?

[DJC]

Is there a way to enforce a coding standard in STMIDE with some text highlighting?

i.e: "function names should be Function_Name()" etc.

What rules does STM use for their generated libraries in this case?

Does anyone recommend some plugins for this? 

What standards are others trying to follow when writing their code?

[Ozone · Accepted solution]

"Coding standards" are totally arbitrary.

You can enforce rules like MISRA through integrating PCLint (or similar tools).

Otherwise, you can do code reviews.

[TDK]

There is no standard for enforcing coding standard in C or C++, partly because the language is 30+ years old and existing code out there.

Eclipse (which STM32CubeIDE is build from) can auto-format things. I find that helps quite a bit when importing messy/outside code.

Window -> Preferences -> C/C++ -> Code Style -> Formatter

Auto-formatting can be done with Source -> Format.

[DJC]

Handy! Thanks!

Based on this, it looks like the Code Gen is done with the formatter set to GNU. However when one installs STMIDE, the formatter is set to K&R by default.

Not a big deal, but I do bet a bunch of people get a bit OCD when they press tab in main.c and it tabs out to a different place that what is already written.

[TDK]

Based on the code pasted into the forum by users, I would be surprised if more than 20% of programmers enforced any type of style at all.

[DJC]

:face_with_tears_of_joy: i hear ya !

I think it would benefit the community if ST packaged some PClint or similar as an easy opt-in